Customers with Medicare insurance or drug coverage through WellCare Health Plans Inc. have a few options to consider now that federal regulators cracked down on the company's practices. ...more

February 21, 2009

WellCare's suspension of new enrollments does not affect current WellCare beneficiaries. ...more

February 21, 2009

Customers with Medicare insurance or drug coverage through WellCare Health Plans Inc. have a few options to consider, now that federal regulators cracked down on the company's practices. ...more

February 20, 2009

The government paid more than $1 billion in questionable Medicare claims for medical supplies that showed little relation to a patient's condition, including blood glucose strips for sexual impotence and special diabetic shoes for leg amputees, congressional investigators say. ...more

September 24, 2008

What does a company do when there's anecdotal evidence that two of its drugs are equally effective in treating a leading cause of blindness in the elderly, one costing patients $60 per treatment and the other $2,000? ...more

August 28, 2008

Medicare's top officials said in 2006 that they had reduced the number of fraudulent and improper claims paid by the agency, keeping billions of dollars out of the hands of people trying to game the system. ...more

August 21, 2008

While Medicare, our national health care program for seniors, drowns in waste and inefficiency, some members of Congress want to throw a life preserver to the health care organizations that improperly bill the program for billions of dollars each year. ...more

February 13, 2008

Nearly 2 million low-income Medicare participants could be switched to different insurance plans for their prescription drug coverage next year. ...more

November 4, 2007